St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-21
ANATIONAL BLESSING.
The Ne " York Sun's Editorial Com.
Ments on asase Ball.

ments on base Ball.
New York Sun.
The base ball season may be regarded as
opened wide to-day for these parts by the
game between the Brooklyns and Metro
politans. The big guns of the league will
not go off in volley till the 3Oth Of this
month, but the preliminary testing and prac-
tice are going on; and the college mines
have girded up their loins in preparation
for the struggles of May and June. But
all these are only stitch in national base
ball. Countless mines of amateurs are
bringing out their uniforms. OF passing the
hat about for new ones. The innumerable
small boy, careless of truant acts and Off
GERS. and tottering beneath the weight of
too ambitious a bat stick, seeks the vacant
lots and unobserved suburban spaces. There
he rurisswith wild burst of speed that
would give greyhound palpitation Of the
heart strikes tiercely at the air. throws the
ball over everybody's head, chases it and
the meditative cow perSpireS and ObjurgateS
freely, and gets into fight with somebody
or other before nightfall. By the green upon
his trousers, by the black beneath his eye,
his deeds are recognized and rewarded When
he is forced by the darkness and his hunger
to HE hOmeward to supper and stern pa
rents. But what would life be to him with
out base ball?
These are the players; and what crowds
some of them play to! 1t is glorious to play
ball, and even to see it played hath the joy
OF taking exercise by proxy. Sometimes
you get cold in the spectators seat; some
times you are sunstruck; but what of that?
What do you go to base ball match for?
Primarily to cultivate the bowling voice;
secondarily. to enrich the score card and
peanut men; thirdly, to listen to the remarks
of the inevitable expert idiot who explains
the game for the benefit of novices
and comments learnedly upon the various
plays; fourthly, to bet and loose; tifthly, to
get cramps in the legs: sixthly, to make Ii
belous remarks upon the appearance and
character of the umpire, who, by the way,
is universally called an ''empire" by eX-
perts. And that's not the worst name they
call him by, sometimes.
But the great duty and pleasure of base
ball game, after all, is to ''whoop it up for
our nine" The descendants of the present
generation of baseball enthusiasts will in
herit robust lungs. The national game is a
national blessing.
Gun Club Shoots.
The st. Paul Gun club has arranged for a
two days sweepstake shoot at the fair
grounds on Wednesday and Thursday of
next week. The events will be as follows,
the programme for the two days being the
same:
First Event-Ten single Peoria blackbirds,
entrance, 81.
Second Event-Seven single and four pair
Peorias, entrance, $1.50.
AFTERNOON.
Third Event-Six single and two pair
Peorias, entrance, 81.
Fourth Event-Ten single and five pair
Peorias, entrance, 81.
Fifth Eveut-Ten single Macomber metal
birds, entrance. 81.
All purses will be divided into four moneys.
Lunch served at the grounds. National rules
to govern. except as to handicap.
The gun clubs of this state are requested
to send one OF more delegates to conven-
ton, which will be held in st. Paul on the
27th inst, for the purpose of forming a
state association.
The st. Paul Gun club will have its
weekly shoot at the fair grounds to-day.
Sfraub allied TO Time.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In answer to Fred Straub's card that ap-
peared in yesterday mornings GLOBE, will
say that when challenged Straub for $500
side for q twenty-fve-n1ile race against Eek,
l meant twenty-five miles, not fifty miles, and
l also meant business, as have deposited
$50 forfeit in the hands of the sporting edi
tor of the Tribune. Now. if Straub means to
race Eek twenty-five miles, let him cover my
forfeit. He claims that he is no short-dis-
tance rider. and that he doesn't care to ride a
twenty -hve-mile race, and yet, IN the same
article, he states that he would like to make a
match against Grant Bell for twenty-five
miles, and when he defeated Eek at Fari-
bault week before last, it was in race of
twenty-five miles. Now fail to see how he
can get out of giving Eek race. l don't
care about matching Eek for fifty miles in
the condition his arm is in at the present
time, but if Straub can beat him in twenty
or twenty-five mile race he can have $500 of
my money. Respectfully,
s. A. CARLISLE.
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